..Their unique work structure presents challenges to delivering a program to enhance their health and safety. No randomized controlled trials have assessed the impact of a Total Worker Healthâ„¢ program designed for their needs...

..If developed and shown to be effective, those programmes might better reduce injuries and, in addition, provide life skills that would benefit young female athletes both on and off the playing field...

Cross-sectional study of female students reporting anabolic steroid use

..To assess the effects of random drug and alcohol testing (DAT) among high school athletes...

A qualitative study of a nutrition working group

Geoffrey W GreeneDepartment of Nutrition and Food Sciences at the University of Rhode Island in Kingston, Rhode Island, USAHealth Promot Pract 8:299-306. 2007

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Definition and outcome of a curriculum to prevent disordered eating and body-shaping drug use

Diane L ElliotJ Sch Health 76:67-73. 2006

..These findings illustrate the utility of a structured process to define curriculum content, and the program's positive results also confirm the sport team's potential as a vehicle to effectively deter health-harming behaviors...

Analysis of baseline by treatment interactions in a drug prevention and health promotion program for high school male athletes

..The results of this study suggest that patterns of dietary supplement use are complex and support the use of SDM to identify possible population characteristics for targeted and tailored health communication interventions...

Baseline design elements and sample characteristics for seven sites participating in the Nutrition Working Group of the Behavior Change Consortium

..Once the roadmap for translation is established, extending it broadly to the 30,000 fire departments across the U.S. would allow almost $1 billion dollars a year to be saved and channeled into providing other jobs and services. ..